The hallways of Bayside HS in Queens are a big, churning mass of teenage energy. When 34 students file into María del Pilar García’s AP Spanish class, that energy doesn’t disappear. It’s harnessed.

The labor and environmental movements have often been at odds in recent decades but unions had a big role in the massive People's Climate March in New York City callling for global action on climate change.

The Teacher Union Day ceremony and luncheon will be held on Sunday, Nov. 2, at the New York Hilton Hotel. UFT Assistant Treasurer Mona Romain, who is retiring this year, will receive the Charles Cogen Award, the union’s highest internal honor.

Hundreds of UFT members marched up Fifth Avenue for the 132nd Labor Day Parade on Sept. 6. As in years past, retirees — including founding UFT member Leo Hoenig — joined in-service members in the march.

What happens when a baseball coach, a sailor and an electrician walk into a classroom? Just ask Brad Alter, a 6th-grade special education teacher at Spring Creek Community School in East New York.

New union cleared for takeoff at American Airlines

The Tax-Deferred Annuity program or TDA is one of the most popular benefits that the UFT has won for its members.

The UFT filed grievances on Sept. 18 and 19 on more than 3,500 classes citywide jam-packed with more students than allowed under the union contract. Although there were 210 fewer oversize classes this year than at the same time last year, the classes...

The UFT and the DOE reached agreement on Sept. 3 on initial system-wide, enforceable paperwork standards that should ease the excessive and burdensome paper and electronic demands imposed on educators in recent years.

Mulgrew told chapter leaders at the citywide chapter leader meeting that after the long fight with Mayor Bloomberg over his disastrous school policies, "it’s time to shift. We now have to show everyone what public education should be.”